Archive for April, 2005

Common but Not Trivial

Monday, April 25th, 2005

“Marriage is common but not trivial.”
I would be really impressed with myself if that quote was from the sermon at my wedding and I had remembered it for all this time—but no. That line is from a wedding I attended about a week ago carefully disguised as a musician.
I had [...]

Cat-Shaped Hole

Sunday, April 17th, 2005

There’s a cat-shaped hole in my life
Not as raw, but definitely there
It swells out when I come home and open the door
It hurts me when I walk into the study
He used to raise his head and give a plaintive mew
Asking for love
A cat-shaped hole, but something else, too
I’ve learned something-
Learned that stories have endings
Learned about [...]

Cooper: The Bible

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

It is another peculiarity of the comprehensive wisdom of the bible, that scarce a chapter, unless it be strictly narrative, can be turned to, that does not contain some searching truth that is applicable to the condition of every human heart, as well as to the temporal state of its owner, either through the workings [...]

Cooper: The Heart of Man

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

“See, and judge with your own eyes,” said the scout, advancing toward the eastern brow of the mountain, whither he beckoned for the whole party to follow; “if it was as easy to look into the heart of man as it is to spy out the nakedness of Montcalm’s camp from this spot, hypocrites would [...]